Started out like any other day. Woke up at 6am and hopped on my bike at 630 to get to work. Took my same old normal route, uneventful. I got to work disappointed that I didn't get much of a workout. Apparently that means I'm getting in a lot better shape so that is really good. I had some workout clothes with me to put in my locker in the gym and workout after work.
Since it's summer break, I'm only working until noon. Well, I get off work and head to the locker room and get changed. Once changed I head into the gym. LOCKED! I read the sign, apparently they are closing it from noon-1 every day during the break. Too bad that's the only hour of the day that I have available to work out in that gym. Just my luck.
So I go back to the locker room and unchange, get on my bike and head to my meeting at Bellevue University. All goes well and I'm done in an hour and hop back on the bike deciding to take a more challenging route home.
I'm hauling butt the whole way home in the heat to get maximum workout. Come to find out I forgot to refill my water bottle but oh well, I'm just going home right?
Ok so I make good time and get home all sweaty and thirsty but wait.. OH NO MY BIKE RACK BAG IS GONE! I yell up at my wife what the problem was and the route I took home so she can load the boys up in the car and head to the beginning of the route while I jump back on my bike and start backtracking. Halfway there I'm feeling the heat and dehydration and starting to get light headed. I make it to the last spot I know I had the bag and turn to head home empty handed hoping my wife had better luck and I make it to a gas station for some nice cold icewater. Luckily they were nice and let me fill up with the free water because I had no wallet or cellphone to call my wife and pick me up since they were both in my bag.
LUCKILY a very nice man found my bag on the trail and got ahold of my wife after seeing the last number called on my phone. UNLUCKILY, it was a month old HTC Touch Pro 2 and the screen smashed into my ULock when it hit the ground (or at least that's the impression I get when I look at the now-smashed screen). Also, the microphone doesn't work so the only way I can talk is with a headset... BUT at least is still mostly functions and at least I got everything back so it could have definitely been worse.
Here's a picture I stopped and took at the last known place that I still had my bag in my possession.. some nice flooded trail!
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